Are you currently taking anything to help relieve the pain? What do your doctor's say to do?

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Everything I have ever tried for pain does nothing and they've basically run out of ideas. It healed correctly (or so I'm told) and PT didnt help so I'm basically stuck..

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Those kind of injuries can be painful for the duration. Weather, atmospheric changes, environmental changes, all can affect the pain levels.

My now ex-husband, was electrocuted, suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury and fell 2 stories out of a Cherry Picker when I was pregnant with our 2nd son. He broke his hips on both sides, it healed perfectly, but to this day he still has pain when "things" change....that was almost 20 years ago. Its bone pain so there really aren't meds that do anything for it. I know keeping active and heat, like soaking in really, really hot baths, using heating pads when he slept used to help him the most. The more sedentary he was the worse the pain got, especially in cold/cool/damp weather.

If the bone healed correctly, it might be a scar tissue problem? There are a ton of muscles and nerves around the hip, and if you formed scar tissue that's gunking things up it can cause a lot of pain.

Have you seen a non-surgical orthopedic specialist? They're physiatrists (physical medicine and rehabilitation) doctors that might have better insight on soft tissue management. Especially one that does musculoskeletal ultrasound to look at the soft tissues in the office. That's how I finally got a diagnosis for my hip pain! Good luck!

I will keep these things in mind and might try to see one of the specialists you recommended. Thann you all very much

You don't generally have surgery for a broken hip when your young and healthy, they just let it heal. Unless it was a compound fracture and the bones completely separated and had to be put back in place with pins/plates.

Did you have surgery for yours? That would the only way any type of scar tissue would form.

I did not have surgery

That's good. You shouldn't have any scar tissue issues. I imagine your pain is bone pain. One trick I learned that helps a lot. I put heating pad under my sheets with a long beach towel over them, so they don't get too hot. It helps with sleeping, I have severe issues and joint disease in my hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, etc. along with advanced arthritis. The heat helps alot at night with sleeping it keeps the chill off.

For whatever reason, heat has always been better at penetrating bone/joint pain instead of cold/ice. For me cold just makes it worse. If the pain is particularly bad I put a heating pad on top as well and just kind of wrap my hips and knees in them as I sleep. I'm one of those people who do not move in my sleep. I've dealt with Chronic Pain since I was 17, and through all the pain and all the surgeries, etc. my body learned a long time that if you don't move it hurts less. So I can wrap heating pads around my hips and knees and they stay put.

If you don't stay still, you can always get those large elastic straps and just fasten them around the heating pad and you, just don't make them too tight.

In the 9 years since you broke your hip and the Docs said it was healed. Have you ever had a repeat MRI, just to make sure no small pieces of bone or cartilage haven't broken off and are aggravating the area? That's the only other thing I could think of or sometimes bone spurs can form, but generally that turns into a different more sharp type of pain. Does your Ortho do checkups every few years?

Agree that surgery is the biggest cause of scar tissue, but depending on the type of break and the trauma to the surrounding tissue when it occurred, you may have developed some scar tissue as your body reacted to the trauma.

Even small bands of scarring can gunk up movement, or irritate nerves. I second the suggestion for the MRI- it might also be possible that you tore your labrum when you broke your hip, and labral tears are notoriously painful. Good luck getting your answers!